Most Awesome Lunch Deals: Cullum’s Attaboy

I usually can’t afford to eat at food trucks — I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but they are @#$!~* expensive. (Hey, I work in newspapers.)

There is one, however, where I don’t feel like a sucker paying high dollar: Cullum’s Attaboy.

Typically, at the food trucks, wherever they gather throughout the city, you can order 2-3 small dishes that add up to a complete meal. The experience of walking up to the trucks for various courses is a great concept. You’re sampling the different flavors each truck offers. But in the end, you pay well past $20 … FOR A MEAL!

At the Attaboy truck, you pay about $13 for the burger, fries and drink. Normally I don’t pay $13 for a burger, fries and drink. But the Attaboy burger is special. I think about that burger often. Fantasize? Yeah, you could say that.

The burger is small but full of substance. Like nanotechnology, it’s packing a ton of flavor at a subatomic level. It’s smaller on the bite count scale than, say, Chris Madrid’s. But it sits heavy in the stomach. I had the bacon cheeseburger, and the cheese melted seductively. The cheese, the bacon, that perfectly toasted bun. You leave satisfied, not ripped off.

The fries aren’t just deep fried, but they have an outer layer of crispiness, like tempura. They are very similar to the ones at Bunsen Burgers, which has since closed over on Walzem Road. I missed those fries, and now they have resurfaced at Attaboy’s.

But the reason Attaboy made this list of Most Awesome Lunch Deals is because they are now open for lunch, between 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Alamo Street Eat Bar, 609 S. Alamo St., which normally is an evening experience.